The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1887-05-19
BILL ARP.
He Makes Flying trip to the old Domip.
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He Makes Flying trip to the old Domin-
ion.
When 1 travel I get lonesome aud
homesick. I would like to have about three
girls and three boys to travel with me.
They would entertain me and I would
take care of them, and we would have
the best kind of time. If I was rich 1
would take my wife and childen every
time. If Hook at mountains and rivers
and valleys and the ocean and big ships
it is melancholy pleasure just because
I am alone. But children don't always
behave when away from home and that
spoils every thing. Some children be-.
have worse when company comes than
any other time. Isaw lady get on the
train as went to Atlanta. She had
three children with her and the boy
wanted a seat next to the window 30 that
he could look out, but his mother
wouldn't let him and he set mp a whine
and kept it up to her modification. She
endured it awhile and then said, II told
you before we started that you would do
exactly that way" and she grabbed him
furiously and slapped him right and left
and msuled him bad, and we. had q reg.
ular battle for awhile. Well that was
bad, very bad, bad on both sides, and
when I expressed my sympathy for the
boy and told Mark Hardin that it was
the best part of the ride TO look out of
the window, Mark said, "Well, that's so,
but these children are an awful worry.
I've just come from place where there
are six under ten years, and their poor
mother has to cook for them and sew for
them and worry with them all day and
part of the night, and 1 looked at her
and watched her until I had liked to have
cried. I am sorry for them, / am, and
they don't get half the sympathy they
are entitled to-" That's so, exactly sc"
said /, "but if the mother of this boy
had have done more whipping at home
she would have less to do on the cars"
"Ob, they don't want to whip them at
ALL" said Mark, "and she wouldn't have
whipped him here if we hadn't been
about. These mothers are long suffering
and have hard life, but that is their
nature, and / reckon it is all right or it
wouldn't have been so."
That night I went to the opera house
to hear the orators of the anti coercion
meeting, and I tell you they made the
blood tingle and the turkey bumps rise
as they talked about the wrongs Of
Ireland. Igot enthusiastic myself and
felt like fighting, and when came away
and told an old friend about it he smiled
and said: ."Well, I'm not botherin my.
self about matters so far away. Them
Irish are a very clever people, I know,
but when we was being coerced down
here they didn't bother themselves about
us. And besides, I reckon there are two
sides to this question, for old England is
mighty solid government and is gener.
ally right. She stands mighty high
among the nations of the earth. There
are two sides, I.reckon-two sides,"' and
he left me bewildered.
The next morning l took the cars for
Norfolk, and it wasa long, bot and dusty
ride. bought some papers of the news
boy and read everything in them, even
to the advertisements. When got to
DR.. Talmage's last sermon I. stopped at
that paragraph where hesays that modern
literature is the curse of the age, and
that ninety.nine out Of every, one hun
dred books that we're printed ought to be
burned, and it would make q bonfire
whose flames would reach to heaven;
that you could hardly find a moral in.
structive book in any book store or on
any parlor table or on the railroad, or in
charge of any newsboy.
So thought that I would see this
newsboy on the train and take an invoice.
found he had Moody and Sam. Jones
and Ouida and Hugh Conway and Hag.
gare. Then there was Napoleon and
Marie Louise and Children's stories and
Instruction for the Young and Woman's
Sacrifice and Bachelors Blunder and
the Detectives Eye and Mrs. Forester's
Romances and Wit, Wisdom and Allie.
CORY, and all the magazines.
Well, now, that is not such a bad
assortment. I think it is much better
than the average. Folks don't want to
be reading religious books all the time.
Why, the young people must have little
romance to mix along with the solid
mental food. Our children are born with
love of stories romantic stories-won.
derful stories. The Arabian Nights and
Baron Manchausen.and Hans Christian
Anderson are all unreal and the biggest
sort Of lies, butthey do no harm. Esop's
fables are lies, but they teach the best
kind of morality. Our earliest delights
were in getting around the heathstone at
night and listening to the marvels and
fctions that our parents told us. How
often did ne slip out quietly to the old
negroes cabin of q winter night and
hear them of ghosts and witches and
Jack o'lanterns and grave yards and raw
head and bloody bones. *
Think that t'Dr. Ta1mage is too hatd
upon our literature, forthere' il a great
deal that.is good and "a great deal more
that isnot corrupting. But still we all
lament the food of bad books and bad
newspapers in the land. The press bias
wonderful power and a wonderful re.
sponsibility, and it was never more beau
tifully and truthfully told than your
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